Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him in…

- Clarence Budington Kelland

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

- Clarence Budington Kelland